What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
This post will likely to be the last in a series that began back in August of 2021. First, a summary of events is in order. Follow the links for details, I will still respond to any comments you may leave.
Part 1 gave an accounting of how, after a year of reporting daily to our empty, "shutdown" office in full knowledge of all those "sheltering in place," I was directly ordered home by the manager of development. Five months later we got the office reopening notice, complete with all the arbitrary and meaningless mitigation mandates we've come to know and love, minus the mandatory vaccination.
Well, I dug in my heals and kicked off a legal process by serving my management and HR with a Conditional Acceptance of their nonsense. My manager was confused, and asked me what I hoped to accomplish with my "unprofessional" tantrum. I answered that I expect Siemens to refrain from inflicting any medical intervention upon me until all conditions of safety, viability, and lawfulness concerning said intervention, as put forth in my Conditional Acceptance, were satisfactorily addressed. In affidavit form. And that eventually, I expect the policy to be withdrawn. This is exactly what has happened: I have been in the office every working day since Thanksgiving, and have not once complied with any mandate; now all C-19 related measures have gone away.
In Part 2 I outlined the Common Law approach I was taking in forcing my corporate aggressors to back off. Though I had come across references to the Common Law in the past, it was only after mandates started popping up like weeds, that I looked into it as a means of challenging the lawfulness of such measures.
The Common Law is our law. It is the law for the people. It is the foundation upon which our founding documents are grounded. Despite all efforts by presidents, legislators, lawyers and judges to push us into a civil/statute/admiralty system of law, we are a Common Law nation. We are what John Adams called "a nation of laws and not of men." That is, no man can decide one's fate, only the law, following due process can determine such an outcome.
Part 3 picked things up after receipt of my Conditional Acceptance. There followed a Teams meeting with my manager and HR, ending in them reading me the riot act, and patting themselves on the back. The smug attitudes explain Miss HR's dumbfoundedness upon being served with a Courtesy Notice graciously giving her another five days in which to respond to my previous Conditional Acceptance.
Vaccinations got added to the mix in Part 4, causing a reset and redirection in strategy. I broadcasted through company e-mail why we did not have to submit to such a demand, and that I would work with anyone wanting to fight it. I got no takers. Nevertheless, I soldiered on. But now my guns were trained on the division CEO, CFO, HR, and four other enablers down the hierarchy. I also reloaded with a new Conditional Acceptance that specifically addressed the vaxx.
Part 5 takes us into November after receipt of the Conditional Acceptance and Courtesy Notice have been confirmed. With due notice having been given, and time to reply having expired, I serve the seven mandate bandits with a Notice of Default and a Notice of Estoppel. The day before Thanksgiving they each got a Notice of (personal) Liability and Fee Schedule and Demand to Cease and Desist, amounting to $100,000 per violation, per day, per person. Things seemed to go oddly quiet after that.
With the legal process in motion, I was girded for battle. The first confrontation is detailed in Part 6. It ended in a stalemate, but I did manage to lay out the expected code of conduct for any future conflict.
A truce is reached in Part 7. It was really more of an unconditional surrender on the part of management with me declaring that I would be coming into the office everyday, oblivious to any and all mandates. I was almost daring them to violate the served estoppel and set the fee schedule into motion. I did promise not to disrupt any more meeting with my maskless form, however.
Bluff Successfully Called
I'm proud to say that I have not wavered in holding to my declaration of noncompliance. Unfortunately, I didn't get to cash in on any violations of estoppel. But really, a payout was never the aim of the strategy. The aim was to take Siemens to the precipice (to borrow a phrase), and force them to back down, which is exactly what happened.
Admittedly, events unwound in my favor, with SCOTUS shooting down Biden's OSHA mandates being the most consequential. That said, the threat of personal liability for the breaching of any one of my inalienable rights did give Siemens pause, if only to regroup. But the counter attack never came. I revel in the thought of any anxiety I may have unleashed in the minds of my targets, gloat over the money spent on legal plottings, and chortle at the time wasted by lawyers. Maybe they learned something.
The mandates disappeared Monday without comment. The masks were simply gone. Ever the smart ass (not that I don't have just cause), I congratulated everyone on being allowed to breath oxygen again, and welcomed them back to the atmosphere. It seems that Siemens, like all other tyrannical organizations, has, as I told the group, decided for no discernible reason to swap a phony pandemic for a phony war.
Truly the fight never ends friends, but we should still take time to savor our victories. I won! I write that almost in disbelief. We won, Pedes. We faced down a Goliath. I read every comment made in the course of this series. I digested every question, concern, encouragement, accolade, and nay saying. I weighed the wisdom and considered the applicability of each. Some I acted on. Knowing that I had to answer to you, and that you all had my back gave me the courage and confidence to sally forth.
Fortified with the knowledge of who I am, drawn from my studies into the Common Law (a free man), and armed with its application, I was able to take the battle to my aggressors. And so, for four months I have walked proudly and defiantly, and above all, honorably, in the very den of the enemy. The experience has kindled a passion in me for the Common Law. It is a tool gifted to We the People. A tool most of the world does not have. With it, whenever we chose to stand against evil, we do not have to stand naked. For we have both the Law and the Lawgiver on our side.
God bless everyone.
That's how it's worked in the past but this time we have it all.
Your statement makes no sense in the context of my comment.
The Book of Revelations tells us what will happen in the end times. Some of the things prophesied have (potentially) come to pass - the vaxx passport may be "the mark of the beast", etc.
But we don't have the two witnesses in Jerusalem breathing fire, and we don't have the antichrist sitting in the temple in Jerusalem claiming to be the messiah. The third temple hasn't even been built yet!
So no, this is not over.
I fear you are correct. Men will always thirst for power and money. The cabal/Deep State is far and wide. I believe it is next to impossible to weed them all out. They will sprout again and again. Only by returning to God in our lives and in the classroom and by strong determination to return to the family will we prevail. We need to see that God and family are more important than the material things in life.
Ultimately, our protection comes from God. In times of physical and spiritual attack and in threatening situations of all kinds, those who trust in the Lord find Him to be a strong Protector. “He shields all who take refuge in him” (Psalm 18:30).
God does not always shield us from the results of our own sins or the negative effects of the sins of others. (John 16:33). In every situation, however, God remains in control, and our sufferings have a limit.
People should re-read Revelations if they want to know what the precipice really means. That if those days weren't cut short by the return of Jesus Himself no one would survive to the end. It's been said many times that "God wins" and that's true. We, on the other hand, cling on by our fingernails and get by best we can until His triumphant return. The Tribulation is a time of Hell on Earth. If this isn't it, then the evil may be beaten back for a while. But it will return again one day for the Grand Finale. It's been written.
Your old book written by men is irrelevant to what's going on.
The Bible is remarkably self-consistent, despite having been written by more than 40 different writers over a timespan of about 2,000 years. God’s moral law, man’s rebellion against God’s law, and God’s plan of salvation are the continuing themes throughout the pages of Scripture. This internal consistency is what we would expect if the Bible really is what it claims to be—God’s revelation.
Moreover, the Bible is uniquely authentic among ancient literary works in terms of the number of ancient manuscripts found and the smallness of the timescale between when the work was first written and the oldest extant manuscript (thereby minimizing any possibility of alteration from the original). This indicates that the Bible has been accurately transmitted throughout the ages, far more so than other ancient documents.
For example, in Daniel 2 a prophecy predicted the next three world empires (up to and including the Roman Empire) and their falls. If the Bible were not inspired by God, how could its mere human writers possibly have known about events in the distant future? In Isaiah 40:22 we read about the spreading out (expansion) of the heavens (the universe). Yet secular scientists did not discover such expansion until the 1920s.
In Romans 1:18–21 the Scriptures teach that God has revealed Himself to everyone. God has “hardwired” knowledge of Himself into every human being, such that we all have inescapable knowledge of God. People go to great lengths to convince themselves and others that they do not know what, in fact, they must know. he fact that even unbelievers are able to use logic and science is a proof that the Bible really is true.
You’re welcome to whatever opinion you want, fren. The Creator of the Universe granted us free will.
I fear your hatred of God will bite you in the ass in the end, though.
I didn't mention God once, nor do I hate him. Christians thinking their religion represents all of humanity and forcing it down everyone's throat is a running theme on this forum and you really should stop.